Itamar EichnerPublished: 11.19.12, 18:27 / Israel NewsFor the first time since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel has placed the blame on Iran for all aspects of weapons' smuggling to the Gaza Strip.

[link to security.blogs.cnn.com] An Israeli official told CNN Monday that missiles and their components continue to be shipped through tunnels from Sinai into Gaza. He said Iran was providing munitions, Grad missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, communications, and command and control capability to Hamas.

His comments were echoed by one of the most powerful tribal figures in northern Sinai, Ibrahim Menai.

Well of course.iran wants to provoke an attack so russia gets drawn in

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16042722

Very Big Business interests want the oil and natural gas resources in that area of the world. Russia and China don't want to let them take it. Pentagon has stated that future "conflicts" will be fought over natural resources, not religious or political ideologies. Sums up the ongoing situation quite well!

Well of course.iran wants to provoke an attack so russia gets drawn in

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 16042722

Very Big Business interests want the oil and natural gas resources in that area of the world. Russia and China don't want to let them take it. Pentagon has stated that future "conflicts" will be fought over natural resources, not religious or political ideologies. Sums up the ongoing situation quite well!

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. Albert EinsteinThe kingdom of God is within you and all around you. It is not within buildings of wood or stone. Split a piece of wood and you will find me. Look beneath a stone and I am there.Stigmata

Islam is too blame. They are arming Hamas and the Brotherhood and starting the bullshit in Syria and blaming the Us and Israel and now they have Anonymous hacking everybody which just proves to me who Anonymous was all the time. Anonymous is Islam and has been stiring the pot for some time. Look at the stuff they supposedly exposed. Look at it all now and put it into context. Starting to all make sense. Fuck them all. Child baby murdering raping stoneing beheading tear down christianity Anti Christ religion founded on murdering pedofile warlord that though he could have the world also. Fuck Them All.

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow". ~Aesop

"Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…" -Charles Bukowski

"Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first." -Goenka

A country produces its own weapons TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE, but then goes off 'to market' to sell those weapons to KNOWN TERROR ORGANISATIONS or despots or call-em-what-you-will FUTURE ENEMIES if that's more comfortable.

How can ARMING YOUR FUTURE ENEMIES be legal????

I don't get it.

It's like gas prices ... how can ALL COSTS and ALL R&D and ALL FUTURE PROOFING be pushed (as a crippling financial burden) onto the tarif payer? It's not only immoral, it's surely illegal. Shouldn't this stuff be written off as a tax deductible in their accounts, and only the PROFIT be dividend stripped from?

That remark – made in a radio studio when he thought he was off the air – echoes a theory that Tehran’s fingerprints are all over the current escalation of violence.

Realizing that he was actually live on air, Sacks did not elaborate on his theory but Western intelligence agencies and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) do agree that longer-range rockets being fired toward Tel Aviv are Iranian-manufactured Fajr-5 missiles.

The Fajr-5s are assembled locally after being shipped from Iran via Egypt’s Sinai region from where they are smuggled into Gaza through tunnels, the IDF says on its own public information site.

Israel believes weapons travel via Sudan – a theory underlined when it launched airstrikes on an apparent arms factory there last month, killing two people.

Two Palestinian militant groups - Islamic Jihad and Hamas - have claimed to have fired Fajr-5s. Hamas calls its rockets "Palestinian made" and does not acknowledge receiving weapons from Iran, although it does refer to Iran as a "supporter of the resistance."

A senior Iranian lawmaker has denied supplying Hamas with weapons. "We deny having delivered the Fajr-5 to the Palestinian resistance,” Allaeddine Boroujerdi, head of the Tehran parliament's foreign affairs committee said on Saturday, according to the Daily Star newspaper in Lebanon. He added that Hamas was “perfectly capable of producing the arms it needs.”